Alma House is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. House.
Alma House
- WRENN ID
- odd-joist-elm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- Camborne and Redruth MP: Perran Moon (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Alma House, 8, Alma Terrace, Carharrack
- OS grid reference
- SW 730 413
- Coordinates
- 50.22824, -5.18297
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Alma House is a house located on Carharrack Church Road, dating from the early to mid 19th century. It is constructed from coursed squared killas rubble, featuring granite quoins and dressings, with part of the exterior slate-hung and a scantle slate roof. The building has a double-depth plan and stands two storeys high with three bays, presenting a symmetrical facade. The ground floor includes a coved niche flanked by 12-pane sash windows, while the first floor has a 12-pane sash window above the door, which is flanked by 16-pane sashes. The roof is hipped, and there is a chimney on the right-hand side wall. The right-hand return wall features an altered doorway at ground level and is slate hung at the first floor. The interior has not been inspected. Alma House forms a group with No. 6 to the left.
Local climate
Alma House receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2000
- No related consent applications matched
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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